Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern (Riverhead Books), a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Time, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, and Electric Literature.
A winner of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, Jenny has published stories in The Sewanee Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Adroit Journal, Narrative, The Offing, the Best of the Net Anthology, and other journals. Her writing on design, travel, and culture has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Them, and Dwell, where she was previously the Executive Editor.
Jenny holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University. She is the grateful recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, Yaddo, Kundiman, Aspen Words, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Loghaven, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and other organizations.
Born in Shanghai and hailing from California, she’s currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
